is money and staying alive but and that makes him much more similar to a public escobar than a joseph stalin or at all hitler the problem is that you give pablo escobar. the powers of a sovereign state with military and intelligence services and nuclear weapons and that's a stream a scary combination well speaking of staying alive and we certainly hope you do do you feel that the efforts that you've put in place now are unstoppable even potentially come a day when you're not around to loping constantly in that cause the absolutely the the magnitsky act is now turned into a viral phenomenon it's jumping from country to country to country there's magnitsky proposals all over the world in different parliaments and governments etc and of course i can help and i can stir up the pot make things happen but without my presence they would happen at the same time and in addition to that the the money laundering investigation the who got the $230000000.00 and sergei magnitsky was killed over has led to a massive international money laundering investigation which is snared danske a bank nor dia banks wh

roosevelt never pretended to be in love with joseph stalin. in the real world, we have to deal with these people but we don't have to embrace them. of we can treat the leaders authoritarian states, we can do business with them. but we don't need to embrace them in the same way that we embrace the leaders of democratically elected governments. was some of the conversation you can watch tonight in its entirety at 8:00 eastern on c-span. weeknights this month, we are featuring book tv, showcasing what is available every weekend on c-span2. tonight, george packer talks about the life and career of richard holbrook. saxton, recalls the life of george washington's mother. talks aboutitt linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. you can watch that starting at 8:30 eastern on c-span2. also this month, we are showcasing american history tv as a preview of what is available every weekend on c-span3. tonight, we examined congressional history. the 116th congress started its two-year term in janua

doesn't have he's not he's not like joseph stalin he's not doing all these crimes for some communist reason he's not he's not doing this for some religious reason he's doing this for money he's a kleptocrat all he cares about is money and staying alive but and that makes him much more similar to a public escobar than a joseph stalin or adult hitler the problem is that you give pablo escobar. the powers of a sovereign state with military and intelligence services and nuclear weapons and that's a streamlined scary combination well speaking of staying alive and we certainly hope you do do you feel that the efforts that you've put in place now are unstoppable even potentially come a day when you're not around to loping constantly in that cause the absolutely the the magnitsky act is now turned into a viral phenomenon it's jumping from country to country to country there's magnitsky proposals all over the world in different parliaments and governments etc and of course i can help and i can stir up the pot make things happen but without my presence they would happen at the same time and in

doesn't have he's not he's not like joseph stalin he's not doing all these crimes for some communist reason he's not he's not doing this for some religious reason he's doing this for money he's a kleptocrat all he cares about is money and staying alive but and that makes him much more similar to a public escobar than a joseph stalin or adult hitler the problem is that you give pablo escobar. the powers of a sovereign state with military and intelligence services and nuclear weapons and that's a streamlined scary combination well speaking of staying alive and we certainly hope you do do you feel that the efforts that you've put in place now are unstoppable even potentially come a day when you're not around to loping constantly in that cause the absolutely the the magnitsky act is now turned into a viral phenomenon it's jumping from country to country to country there's minsky proposals all over the world in different parliaments and governments etc and of course i can help and i can stir up the pot make things happen but without my presence they would happen at the same time and in ad

doesn't have he's not he's not like joseph stalin he's not doing all these crimes for some communist reason he's not he's not doing this for some religious reason he's doing this for money he's a kleptocrat all he cares about is money and staying alive but and that makes him much more similar to a public escobar than a joseph stalin or at all hitler the problem is that you give pablo escobar. the powers of a sovereign state with military and intelligence services and nuclear weapons and that's a streamlined scary combination well speaking of staying alive and we certainly hope you do do you feel that the efforts that you've put in place now. unstoppable even potentially come a day when you're not around to loping constantly in that cause the absolutely the the magnitsky act is now turned into a viral phenomenon it's jumping from country to country to country there's minsky proposals all over the world in different parliaments and governments etc and of course i can help and i can stir up the pot make things happen but without my presence they would happen at the same time and in addi

roosevelt never pretended to be in love with joseph stalin. >> reporter: in asia tonight, pompeo said he regrets no talks are planned, talks that have not resumed since the hanoi summit colpsed last winter. lester. >> andrea, thanks. >>> joe biden remained on defense today following last night's democratic debate where his opponents largely tried to make the race referendum on him and barack obama. all this as president trump is weighing in in a rally in ohio. peter alexander is there and has more. >> reporter: on his way to a rally in cincinnati, president trump delivering his own take on the democrats who want to defeat him. >> i think biden did okay. he came through. he came limping through as i say about sleepy joe. he limped right through it. >> reporter: it follows the fiery debate in detroit with front runner joe biden the primary target, biden challenged on his sponsorship of the controversial 1994 crime bill. >> we have a system that's broken. if you want to compare records and i'm shocked that you do -- >> why did you announce in the first day a zero tolerance policy of stop

but franklin d rooseveltnever pretended to be in love with joseph stalin . and so in the real world, we have todeal with these people . but we don't have to embrace them. and we can treat the leaders of authoritarian states. we can do business with them, but we don't need to embrace them in the same way we embrace the leaders of democraticallyelected governments . >> you mentioned the city on the hill which calls to mind when i traveled to moscow ronald reagan to meet with mikhail gorbachev after the first couple of summits, after the 1985summit and the moscow summit . and he went to the ambassador's residence and gave a speech to the russian people. the soviet then people and he did not, ronald reagan did not mince his words and that did not prevent him from reaching landmark arms-control and nuclear reduction treaties with gorbachev. so there's a balancing act and i think values have to in some fundamental way the central to who we are as a country. >> what's the rest of this discussion on global challenges facing the us tonight at eight eastern on c-span

bush killed more than joseph stalin. that is madness. you possibly believe that unless you spend four years in university hearing nothing bad about stalin and only bad about bush go this is what we don't know they don't ask me to debate they don't even come to my presentations. they are very very very close minded. i find. >> bill ayres have sat at the table. >> interesting. >> somebody that you write about quite extensively. >> i write about them in dupes and in the communist they were founders of the weather underground when the students were democrats the sias id was not radical enough they formed weather underground i read prairie fire which was the manifesto among the people that they dedicate that to there's a bunch of names which the kennedy family god bless them objected to errors getting tenure at the university of chicago he was a professor of education precisely because of that. >> he stilll is. images at university of illinois chicago. that they were as radical as could be so september 11, 2001 per piece on bill ayres is call

but frankly -- but franklin d roosevelt never pretended to be in love with joseph stalin.n the real world, we have to deal with these people. but we don't have to embrace them. and we can treat the leaders of authoritarian states, we can do business with them, but we don't need to embrace them in the same way that we embrace the leaders of the democratically elected governments. announcer: that was some of the conversation. you can watch it tonight in its entirety at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. weeknights this month, we featuring booktv. showcasing what is available every weekend on cspan 2. tonight, the theme is biographies. george packer talks about the life and career of diplomat richard holbrook. martha saxton, history and women's study professor at amherst college recalls a life of george washington's mother. josh leven, national editor at slate, talks about linda taylor, a criminal whose exploits launched the idea of the welfare queen in the united states. you can watch that tonight starting at 8:30 eastern on cspan 2. also this month, we are showcasing american his

roosevelt never pretended to be in love with joseph stalin. in the real world, we have to deal with these people. but we do not have to embrace them. leaders oftreat the authoritarian states, we can do business with them, but we do not need to embrace them in the same way that we embrace the leaders of democratically elected governments. yourthink, andrea, to lose, i think that if we our willingness to be that city on the hill. to be that beacon. i think we lose a lot of what makes us unique in the world. and i think we lose a piece of our national salt. - i think we lose a iece of our national soul. think we can drive hard bargains with a lot of people, including the chinese. i do not think we ever forget who we are. what the roots are in places like jamestown. ms. mitchell: and the obvious question with kim jong-un, and some of the obvious questions. [applause] and what if we gotten for it, there were mitchell strikes just yesterday -- missile strikes just yesterday. being a political and military ally, but there is jamarcus koji. jamalthere

but franklin d roosevelt neverpretended to be in love with joseph stalin . and do so in the real world, we have to deal with these people. but we don't have toembrace them . and we can treat the leaders of authoritarian states, we can do business with them but we don't need to embrace them in the same way that we embrace the leaders of democratically elected governments . >> you mentioned the city on the hill which calls to mind when i traveled to moscow with ronald reagan to meet with mikhail gorbachev after the first summit after the 1985 summit and there was the moscow summit and he went to the ambassador's residence and gave a speech to the russian people, the soviet then people and ronald reagan did not mince his words and that did not prevent him from reaching landmark arms-control and nuclear reduction treaties with gorbachev. so there's a balancing act and i think value has to some point, in somefundamental way essential to who we are as a country . >> once the rest of this discussion on global challenges facing the us tonight at eight eastern on c-s

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this created the kind of anticosmopolitan campaign by joseph stalin, they have a homeland, why are theye soviet union or suspected of being loyal to another country but you know what else has a long and sorted history is donald trump playing footsie with anti-semites. we dealt with this during the campaign in 2016 when he refused to condemn his fans that attacked jewish journalists. when he ran the closing ad of his campaign, which was basically kind of the greatest hits of the elders of zion, when he re-tweeted the photo shopped image of hillary clinton with the star of david with a pile of money, and deflected and said it was an illusion to frozen. during the charlottesville event, when people were chanting jews will not replace us. the trope has a history and so does donald trump. >> that's what's been so fascinating and disturbing over the past several months. donald trump is actually attacking democratic congresswomen for being anti-semitic when he has trotted out anti-semitic tropes throughout his entire political campaign. again, you look at that hillary clinton ad that he re-twe

franklin d roosevelt never pretended to be in love with joseph stalin. in the real world, we have to deal with these people. we don't have to embrace them. and we can treat the leaders of authoritarian states, we can do business with them, but we do not need to embrace them in the same way that we embrace the leaders of democratic reelected governments. >> you mention the city on the hill. traveling to moscow with ronald reagan. after the 1985 summit. he went and gave a speech to the russian people. he did not, he did not mix his words. that did not prevent him from reaching nuclear reduction treaties. there is a balancing act. i think that has to, in some fundamental way be central to who we are as a country. >> you can watch the rest of this on global challenges facing the u.s. tonight at eight eastern on c-span. a discussion of combating radicalization and efforts. psychology and sociology professors and a white supremacist who acts as a consultant for preventing violent extremism.

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